This strange looking sea creature is a highly-prized delicacy in Hong Kong and China and can be found in live fish tanks out the front of seafood restaurants.

The geoduck is can burrow one metre below the seabed and leave its two siphon holes at the end of its “elephant trunk” neck protruding above the surface to draw in seawater.

They can weigh more than 5kg and live well over 100 years old. Despite its popularity in China, the geoduck is actually native to the Pacific Northwest. Canada and northwestern parts of the United States are big on farming and exporting the phallic-looking mollusc.

In the US, exports to China and Hong Kong account for more than 90 per cent of the harvested clams, which pays 15 times the price you’d find in America.